The last day of swift water rescue training for a group of El Dorado Hills firefighters put their practice to the test Wednesday afternoon. "We immediately looked down the river and we could see a father and a three-year-old boy down about a hundred yards from where we were standing down in the water in a rapid," Captain Brian Wilkey, El Dorado Hills Fire Department, said. The firefighters said their Sierra Rescue International training instructor first noticed it and they followed in to help the boy and his father. "Myself and another one of the personnel that was in the class with us could see the young boy and he was at least three feet underwater. His eyes looked as big as saucers," Wilkey said. Two bystanders tried to help along with the first responders and they too were overpowered by the river's current. All of them were brought safely to shore thanks to these heroes' swift actions being in the right place at the right time.